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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)