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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Conferences

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection