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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence