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experimental archaeology


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
experimental reconstruction

artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts


Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
& just digging
Conferences