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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Artefactual evidence