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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection