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Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag