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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

& just digging