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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag