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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction