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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Conferences