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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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Experimental reconstruction

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