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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction