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Just digging

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology