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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)