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experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging