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artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)