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more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)