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More comparative studies

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction