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Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)