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Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences