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experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)