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Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology