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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British