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Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts