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Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction