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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)