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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone