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experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites