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experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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