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Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag