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Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)