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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts