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Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences