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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Conferences

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