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More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ