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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

Conferences

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection