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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)