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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)