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Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ