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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies