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experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection