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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British