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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies