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Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)