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More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection