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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental reconstruction


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts
experimental archaeology

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
& just digging

Documentary record search
artefactual evidence
