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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

& just digging

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

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