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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts