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& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)