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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ