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experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences