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Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)