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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)