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experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences