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More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ