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experimental reconstruction


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
artefactual evidence

comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology

Crafts
Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag