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Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)