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Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

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