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Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies