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Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone