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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Crafts

artefactual evidence