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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Conferences