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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging