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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)