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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites