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artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)