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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts