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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)