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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence