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Comparing excavated sites

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Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Artefactual evidence