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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)