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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Crafts

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag