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experimental archaeology


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental reconstruction


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search
Conferences

comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
more comparative studies

Crafts