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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence