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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites