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Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)