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artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)