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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag