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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)