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experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British