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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection