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Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

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