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Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Crafts

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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