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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology