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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences