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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging