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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites