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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag