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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection