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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Conferences

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ