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experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)