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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Just digging

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence