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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology