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More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone