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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

artefactual evidence