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artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British