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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)