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Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)