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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

& just digging

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)