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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology