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Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone