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More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British