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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts