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Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ