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Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British