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Experimental Archaeology

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British