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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Crafts

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)