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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone