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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence