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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)