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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)