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Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)