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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag