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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag