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Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)