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Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Crafts

Conferences

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ