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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British