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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)