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Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone