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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts