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comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
more comparative studies


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology


Documentary record search
& just digging

experimental reconstruction

artefactual evidence


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag