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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British