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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection