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comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging