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Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone