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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

& just digging