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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites