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experimental reconstruction

Conferences
comparing excavated sites


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental archaeology

Crafts
& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
more comparative studies

artefactual evidence


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone