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Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology