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experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Conferences