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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence