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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone