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Comparing excavated sites

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology