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Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Crafts

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)