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& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology