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Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection