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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction