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Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British