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experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)