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Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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