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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

artefactual evidence