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Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag