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& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology