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More comparative studies

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging