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artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British