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Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)