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artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British