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comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology