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comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)