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artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection