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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)