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experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

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