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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology