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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection