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Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence