comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence