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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ