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Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

experimental archaeology