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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites