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experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)