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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)