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Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone