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Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)