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experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging