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Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Crafts

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction