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Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

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

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites