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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence