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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag