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comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies