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& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag