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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Just digging