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Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences