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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging