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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites