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Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)