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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)