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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology