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experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts