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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences