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experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences