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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Just digging