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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts