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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection