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comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)