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& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British