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artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies