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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences