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Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

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