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more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag