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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

More comparative studies

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)