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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone