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experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British