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experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag