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experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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