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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

more comparative studies