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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Conferences

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag