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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)

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