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Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag