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Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging