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Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology