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artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British