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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)

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