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Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone