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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence