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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)