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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag