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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Crafts

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites