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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites