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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone