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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag