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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies