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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone