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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies