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experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone