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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Just digging

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection