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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone