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experimental reconstruction


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites

artefactual evidence


Documentary record search
& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone