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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Artefactual evidence