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Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)