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Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence