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artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites