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Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites