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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Crafts