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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence