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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)