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Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Just digging

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts