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Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag