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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Documentary record search

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)