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Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British