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Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction