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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

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