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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction