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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection