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artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies