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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)