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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence