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Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British