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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

& just digging

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British