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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

& just digging

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology