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Experimental reconstruction

& just digging

Artefactual evidence

more comparative studies

 

 

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Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection