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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone