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more comparative studies

 

 

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)