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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences