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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag