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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection