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more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging