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experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection