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Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag