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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British