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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites