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Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ