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experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)