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experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Documentary record search

Conferences

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction