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Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British