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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

& just digging