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Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction