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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)