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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

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artefactual evidence