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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology