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artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)