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artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone