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artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences