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experimental reconstruction


comparing excavated sites

artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental archaeology


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Crafts
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
& just digging
more comparative studies


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)