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Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)