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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging