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& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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