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artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)