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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies