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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)