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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences