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experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search