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experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection