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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences