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Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

Just digging

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction