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experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence