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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies