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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites