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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British