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Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Just digging