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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag