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Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)