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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)