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experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences