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Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection