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experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag