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experimental reconstruction

comparing excavated sites


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search
more comparative studies


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone