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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Artefactual evidence