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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

& just digging

Crafts