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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection