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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone