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Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging