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Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag