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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies