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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone