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artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone