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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag