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experimental archaeology

 

 

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Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence