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Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)