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Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology