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artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)