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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence