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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)