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Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection