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artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

comparing excavated sites