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Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)