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experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone