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experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)