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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone