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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone