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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies