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Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Conferences

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag