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experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone