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Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

More comparative studies

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

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