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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British