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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)