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Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence