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more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)