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Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites