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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging