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Comparing excavated sites

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Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag