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artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection