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Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging