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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts