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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts