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experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

artefactual evidence