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Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)