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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies