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Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Documentary record search

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone