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artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)