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Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction