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experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites