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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence