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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies