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artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Conferences

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)