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experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)