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Experimental reconstruction

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Just digging

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone