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experimental reconstruction


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
more comparative studies


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
experimental archaeology
