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artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction