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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

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