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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

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experimental reconstruction