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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag