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Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ