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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology