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experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites