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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)