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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection