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Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies