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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies