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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag