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more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag