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Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection