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More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag