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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)