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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction