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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies