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experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

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