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Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British