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Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Conferences

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)