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experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British