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experimental archaeology

 

 

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

& just digging