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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Conferences

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)