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Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Conferences

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection