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artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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