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experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction