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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)