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Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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