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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction