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Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)