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Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

More comparative studies