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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging