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Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence