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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ