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artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology