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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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