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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction