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Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone