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Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Conferences