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Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences