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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Documentary record search

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British