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Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)