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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

experimental reconstruction