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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction