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more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences