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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)