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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

& just digging

Documentary record search

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites