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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

& just digging

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites