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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Conferences

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ