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Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone