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Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Comparing excavated sites