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Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences