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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection