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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)