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Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence