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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag