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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)