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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

artefactual evidence