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Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence