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Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone