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experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone