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comparing excavated sites


Crafts
experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
& just digging
experimental archaeology

more comparative studies


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
artefactual evidence


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection