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experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection