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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology