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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging