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recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging