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Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences