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Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British