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& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites