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comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence