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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

experimental archaeology