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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone