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experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag