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Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence