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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection