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experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection