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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction