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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies