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comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)