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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

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Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites