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artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection