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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)