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Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ