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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction