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Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag