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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction