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Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection