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Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag