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experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites