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comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

& just digging