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more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search