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Experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)