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Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Just digging

Crafts

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)