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Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection