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artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction