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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites