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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction