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experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone