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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)