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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)