artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Documentary record search

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction