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Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone