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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone