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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences