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Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection