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Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag