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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction