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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British