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experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging