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& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection