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artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites