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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British