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Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)