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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences