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Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection