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Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

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