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Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection