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Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction