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Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection