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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences