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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)