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comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search