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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone