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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

more comparative studies