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Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology