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experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag