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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging