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Comparing excavated sites

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Artefactual evidence

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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)