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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)