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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

& just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search