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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)