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more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection