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more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

& just digging

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag