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Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites