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artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Conferences

& just digging