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More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ