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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag