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experimental archaeology

 

 

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Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone