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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies