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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)