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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence