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Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ