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Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

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