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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British