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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Conferences

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection