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Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone