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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection