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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ