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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology