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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ