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experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British