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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology