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Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone