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Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection