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comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts