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Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)