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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British