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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts