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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies