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artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction