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comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)