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artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology