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comparing excavated sites


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
& just digging
artefactual evidence

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search
experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British