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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies