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artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

more comparative studies