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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts