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Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Conferences

Just digging