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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology