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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

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

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