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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging