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Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence