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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts