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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)